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TIL: Whoopi Goldberg is member of the NRA

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awa9J TIL that about 16% of wild birds have been known to hybridize with other species of birds. The mallard can hybridize with at least 40 other species. The extent of hybridization calls into question the modern definition of "species".
OJEL TIL Kevin Smith protested his own movie, Dogma, with a Christian group
jNKlp TIL that in 2012 a 'Dead' man turned up at his own funeral in Brazil. His appearance prompted some people to faint and others to flee in panic.
9YBOX TIL that the boson, which is often referred to in the U.S. popular media's the "god-particle" is named after Satyenda Nath Bose, who was not only a contemporary of Einstein, but was also his collaborator in developing Bose-Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose-Einstein condensate.
5d89 TIL: Most ATMs run Windows XP, which Microsoft is ending support for on April 8th